Guess who the two swing dancers are?

Click on the link below and guess who the two dancers are. What style(s) of swing do you think they are doing

http://www.falty.com/trankydoo.mov

Sagitta said:

Click on the link below and guess who the two dancers are. What style(s) of swing do you think they are doing[/url]

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I'd be pretty surprised if they weren't Savoy Lindy Hoppers Leon James and Al Minns, as the title says

:doh: I lose it sometimes. Anyway, is that lindy what they are doing? Doesn't look anything like that to me. :?

Sagitta said:

:doh: I lose it sometimes. Anyway, is that lindy what they are doing? Doesn't look anything like that to me. :?

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No, it's definitely not Lindy.

They're not doing Lindy, but a lot of jazz steps. But since Lindy has borrowed stuff from most of the other jazz dances of the time, some of the stuff they're doing is part of the basic Lindy repertoire. Most of the stuff I don't know. Probably more or less improvised.

It seems like they're doing a couple of moves from the Shim Sham routine, which I think is originally a tap routine, I think I see some Fall of the log in there and some Shorty George looking thing.

I may be wrong, but I believe the Trankydoo (what the file is called) is a jazz/tap routine similar to Big Apple or the Shim Sham.

Hmm. petitetonya mentioned trankydoo in another thread. I asked, but I don't think I ever found out what is was, for sure. Maybe I'll google. what a concept! :wink: :lol:

well. look what I found (source: http://www.swingoutdc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=25462#25462)

Tranky Doo Chereography

Breaktime - 2 bars (comes during the last 2 bars of the intro)
Fall of the logs - 2 bars (comes during the first 2 bars of the head)
Scoot Around with side to side - 2 bars
Fall of the logs - 2 bars
Scoot Around with side to side - 2 bars
Push Downs - 2 bars (8,1 hold 2, hop 3, 4,5 hold 6, hop 7)
Boogie Forward - 2 bars
Push Downs - 2 bars (8,1 hold 2, hop 3, 4,5 hold 6, hop 7)
Boogie Forward - 2 bars
Apple Jacks - 4 bars
Rocks - 2 bars
Side Rocks - 2 bars
Shorty George - 2 bars
Boogie Back - 2 bars
Shorty George - 2 bars
Breaktime - 2 bars
Knee Slaps - 2 bars
Crossover - 2 bars (clap on
Suzy Q - 2 bars (hop and kick with left foot on 7)
Reverse Break - 2 bars (left leg up on 4, down on 5, hop back 7)
Messaround - 2 bars
Fall of the log Break - 2 bars (spread legs on five, together on 7)
Eagle Slide - 2 bars
Drop Boogies - 2 bars (right foot first, together on 7, kick right foot
Mambo Step - 4 bars (right point on 2, left 3, cross with right on 4 hold 5, left point on 6, step right 7, cross with left on 8 hold 1)
Step around - 2 bars
Jump, Fall, Hop - 2 bars (jump one, fall 2, hop 5 6 7
Truckin - 4 bars (cross on seven to hop back)
Hop Back with Left foot - 2 bars (kick with left on 7)
Kick Around - 2 bars
Strut - 4 bars
Box Step - 12 bars
Shout - 8 bars
Clap and Point - 8 bars
(song starts over from the head)
Fall of the logs - 2 bars (comes during the first 2 bars of the head)
Scoot Around with side to side - 2 bars
Breaktime - 2 bars
Fall of the logs - 2 bars
Scoot Around with side to side - 2 bars
Push Downs - 2 bars (8,1 hold 2, hop 3, 4,5 hold 6, hop 7)
Boogie Forward - 2 bars
Push Downs - 2 bars (8,1 hold 2, hop 3, 4,5 hold 6, hop 7)
Breaktime - 2 bars

~FIN~

The Tranky Doo (Original Chereography) as broken down by Mike Faltesek

The song the Tranky Doo was originally done to was "Tuxedo Junction" by Erskine Hawkins.

A clip (although cut in several places) of Al and Leon doing the Tranky Doo is here (he points to the same clip referenced above)

Yes! That's fantastic! 8)